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  1. 31st July 2005, 07:46 AM #1
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    Thumbs up Woodworking Show virgin no more

    Well after much anticipation Friday finally arrived & I was off to Adelaide for a first look at the woodworking show. I only had 1 day & this included a 10hr round trip from Mount Gambier. So like a kid in a lolly shop I was in there & let the spending start!
    I came home with lots of things including a dovetail jig, a tenoning jig, some morticing chisels,a trend 1/4" router, a waterstone with carrier & guide, various small items, & a ML392 combo thicknesser from Leda for $825. Timbecon's website has these for $849 but at the show were $899...strange???.I had to go to Leda's warehouse to get the planer loaded on my ute & picked up a mobile base for it whilst there. The guys were very helpful.
    Also got a Veritas LA smoother & a LA block plane from MIK. They didn't have the smoother on hand but I explained I was only in town for the day & they had one brought in from their shop inside an hour....good service. When I got home I played with these planes till about midnight reducing a piece of scrap pine to shavings....what beautiful tools they are

    The only dissapointment was that carbatec didn't seem to have a lot on hand. I was after a delta scroll saw (they only had the big floor standing jobby there) & a CMT dado set which they didn't have either.

    Next year I will go for the whole weekend I think...1 day just isn't enough.

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  3. 31st July 2005, 09:09 AM #2
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    You could always head east in October to the Melbourne WWW, why wait a year
    6 hour drive? roughly and accommodation is cheap in the outer areas.
    You could even look for a special at Crown and bring SWMBO too and let her loose while at the show.
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  4. 31st July 2005, 09:38 AM #3
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    Originally wanted to go to the melbourne show but going to be in queensland on holi's at that time....bugga. SWMBO booked that ....prbably on purpose.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Redgy
    Well after much anticipation Friday finally arrived & I was off to Adelaide for a first look at the woodworking show....
    Virgin no more eh? I can't think of any slick wood joke to go along with that...

    Sounds like a nice haul, Redgy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zenwood
    Virgin no more eh? I can't think of any slick wood joke to go along with that...

    Sounds like a nice haul, Redgy.
    I could but I wooden dare
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    Redgy got screwed at the wwshow????????????????
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    So let me get this straight. Losing your virginity at the show cost you how much......................??? :eek:
    prove how bored u really are, ..... visit....... http://burlsburlsburls.freespaces.com/ my humble website
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  9. 31st July 2005, 01:33 PM #8
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    Couple grand, still there's no emotional attachment and the tools still look good today
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    Quote Originally Posted by Redgy
    The only dissapointment was that carbatec didn't seem to have a lot on hand. I was after a delta scroll saw (they only had the big floor standing jobby there).
    Thats strange, before I bought my Delta P-20 I went looking for it at the Sydney WWW show and they only had the smaller models on display.
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